to giveeternal life to Believers. 1-—3. Sheweth how faithfully bt ats conpliſhed his work, 4-8. and prayeth for his Diſciples, that he wuld Preſerve them in love and charity, and keep them from the evildf thi world, 9—19. prayeth for all that would beliewe on him through thir word, 20—23. 4nd that they might be with him to behald hu gliy, 24—26,
F ren words ſpake Jeſus ; and lift up his eyes to*l heaven, and faid a, Father *, the hour is comet,"
elorifie thy Son, that thy Son alſo may glorifietheec, ' # When our Lord had finiſhed his Diſcourſes, of which we hart had a large account in Chap.14,15416. he goes to prayer, as hetauph! us when we pray, to dire our petitions to the father ; fo in this bt ſerteth up an example ; and before he ſpeaketh, it is ſaid he !ifr1du his eyes to Heaven, as his Fathers Manſion-houſe ; who tho he filth Heaven and Earth, yer doth in Heaven moſt manifeſt his glory and rhereforc teaching us to pray, he commandeth ug to ſay, Our Fatir which art in Heaven ; not excluſively, as if God were not on Earth ſo, but eminently, as Heaven is the place where he moſt gloriouly manifeſts himſelf. Lifting up of the eyes was an uſual geſture in prajer, and but an indication of the Souls being lifred up, ?/l. 121. !. 3 123. I. yet no neceſlary geſture : for we ſhall at another time find our Saviour faling upon his face when he prayed, Mar.26.3 9. Mark 1g 35. The lifting up of the Soul to God, wherein the main and Spur cual part of our prayer lies, doth neceſſarily require thelifting vp the eyes. The Publican caſt down his eyes upon the Earth, the ſenſe of his unworthineſs. Our Lord lifes up his eyes, and faid, Fs ther the hour is come ; that is, the hour of my Paſſicn, the time — in thou haſt determined that I ſhonld die : c now make thy 50n 8 ” rious, by raiſing me from the dead,by taking me up to Heaven, : } giving me aſſiſtance from thee to do the work which I haveto 0,t0 drink this bitter cup : that ſo I being riſen again from the h_ aſcending up to Heaven, may make thy name famous, by po . thy 7uſtice, Goodneſs, and Truth, upon the Preaching of the Golpe all Nations. ; m4 l 2 * As thou haſt given him power over all _ 0 that he ſhould give eternal life to as-many as thou 1 -
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